Google begins testing the ‘Project Glass’ Augmented Reality glasses. Coming to public this year for $250!

Google has done something cool again. The company has developed a technology that would put all the information you need right in front of your eyes. They have been working on a very cool project called the Project Glass , which has been carried out by the company’s ‘Google X’, a secret laboratory that the company is having to develop future technologies. The glasses are deeply integrated with Google’s services like Google Voice, Search and much more.

The glasses sit nicely in front of your eyes and projects clean Google UI, that integrates directly with your vision, but without blinding you. The company is also said to have a number of various models of Glasses and is testing out which one suits the best.

The announcement came out via a Google+ page that the company has started for the Project Glass, and the page states that these are early prototypes that the company has developed and is showing us the possible designs that could go into these Glasses. Google has also put up a detailed video demonstration of the project and shows us almost all the possible ways in which these glasses can be used. The video shows a New Yorker wandering around the city and how he is alerted with Messages, Emails, maps, directions, and even weather information in front of his eye.

What’s more interesting is that, these Glasses has a Camera built-in. If you had to take a picture, all you need to do is just press the button at the top and that is it. You have taken a picture. Further information about where it is stored and what happens to the picture are still unknown. May be, they get uploaded to Google+?

Talking about the price, the glasses would cost between, $250 and $600 and would be available to the public by the end of this year. But analysts say that the probability of the glasses coming to the market are very less and Google would take some more time to get this to the public. But whatever, the Glasses are very cool and we are trying to get our hands-on with these glasses.

Source: NYT

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